Gross, no. This just allows management to ignore problems and push development teams to do feature work, even when everything is on fire and the oncall person is getting paged multiple times per day.

Oncall should be compensated, always. The oncall person should get a flat rate just for being on standby, and should also receive a per-page payout, and that amount should be larger if the page happens outside regular business hours.

Then management will actually realize there's a cost to pushing features and pulling in deadlines at the expense of robust engineering practices. Or they can decide they are fine with that, and paying the oncall person is a cost of doing business they way they want to.

I've seen too many instances either issues they come up during oncall never get fixed, and just page and page and page.

I will never again work at a company where oncall is "just a part of the job". I value my own time too much.

> Or they can decide they are fine with that, and paying the oncall person is a cost of doing business they way they want to.

I was going to say, this would almost certainly be the outcome. Companies have no problem throwing millions at AWS, DataDog, etc. They certainly aren’t going to blink at an employee making a couple hundred bucks extra per day.